Elder Care...Our Parents and Ourselves
Virginia Lootens was our guest speaker this week talking about her area of legal practice...Elder Law.
The three major categories that make up elder law are:
- Estate planning and administration, including tax questions;
- Medicaid, disability and other long-term care issues; and
- Guardianship, conservatorship and commitment matters, including fiduciary administration.
 Other issues found under the umbrella of elder law include such areas as estate planning; wills; trusts; guardianships; protection against elder abuse, neglect, and fraud; end-of-life planning; all levels of disability and medical care; retirement planning; Social Security benefits; Medicare and Medicaid coverage; Medicaid planning (United States); consumer protection; nursing homes and in-home care; powers of attorney; physicians' or medical care directives, declarations and powers of attorney; landlord/tenant needs; real estate and mortgage assistance; various levels of advice, counseling and advocacy of rights; tax issues; and discrimination.
There are a variety of reasons consulting with an attorney would save you and your loved ones a lot of money, grief and legal hassles, including these reasons:
- Disability planning, including use of durable powers of attorney, living trusts, living wills, advanced directives and other means of delegating management and decision-making to another in case of incompetency or incapacity Conservatorship and Guardianship.
- Estate planning, including planning for the management of one's estate during life and its disposition on death through the use of trusts, wills and other planning documents.
- Preservation/transfer of assets seeking to avoid spousal impoverishment when one spouse enters a nursing home.
- Medicaid planning.
- Medicare claims and appeals.
- Social security disability claims and appeals.
- Supplemental and long term health insurance issues.
- Probate issues.
- Administration and management of trusts and estate.
- Long-term care placements in nursing home and life care communities.
- Nursing home issues including questions of patients' rights and nursing home quality.
- Housing issues, including discrimination and home equity conversions.
- Age discrimination and employment.
- Retirement, including public and private retirement benefits, survivor benefits and pension benefits.
- Health law matters.
- Mental Health law matters.
You can learn more about Elder Law here |
Guests, Visitors & Other Good News
Visiting with us this week was Richard Voyles, an associate of the speaker Virgina Lootens.
Also visiting were Denise and Johnny Miller, owners of Miller Funeral Services and Cremation Society of Texas located on Beechnut across from Memorial Hospital Southwest.
And last, but not least, one of our "associate members" Mary Gregory came to visit the club.
The club also celebrated the return of a lost brother...as Feroze Abdullah attended as a reinstated member of the club. Welcome home Feroze!
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Denise and Johnnie Miller |
Feroze Abdullah, Bola Stephen & Delores Delsing |
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Greg and Mary Gregory |
Wayne Staton and JohnPaul Jourard |
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